Issam Abdel-Tawab Abdel Alim (عصام عبدالتواب عبدالعليم) was a member of al-Jihad convicted in Egypt's Returnees from Albania case. He was the only member extradited from

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, following his capture by the

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Sofia Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ha ...

in July 1998. Canadian Security Intelligence Service, "Summary of the Security Intelligence Report concerning Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub", February 22, 2008. He was one of 14 people subjected to

extraordinary rendition Extraordinary rendition is a euphemism for state-sponsored Kidnapping, forcible abduction in another jurisdiction and transfer to a third state. The phrase usually refers to a United States-led program used during the War on Terror, which had t ...

by the

prior to the 2001 declaration of a

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. During his interrogations, he alleged he was frequently tortured; his genitals were repeatedly electrocuted and his right arm incapacitated after being the subject of a "sharpening tool".Hafez Abu-Saada, "Compiled complaints of Ahmed Osman Saleh, Ahmed Ibrahim al-Naggar, Shawki Salama Attiya, Essam Abdel Tawwab, and Mohamed Hassan Tita", legal document produced by lawyer, 1998 At trial, he described how the group began training its recruits in Yemen in 1990, where they were schooled in

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, political history of militant Islamic movements, surveillance techniques and document forgery. He also noted that he had met

Muhammad al-Zawahiri Muhammad Rabee al-Zawahiri ( ar, محمد ربيع الظواهري; born 1953) is an Egyptian Islamist who was a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and one of 14 people subjected to extraordinary rendition by the CIA prior to the 2001 War on Terr ...

in the country. Held

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from his arrest on July 13 until September 12, he was sentenced to either 10 or 15 years' imprisonment.

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The Fate of Islamists Rendered to Egypt
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